Word: antonios
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...shaken Miller's hand turned to a friend and clucked: "The last time I shook a candidate's hand it was Dewey's. And it didn't do him any good either." The biggest audience that Miller drew all week was 5,000 in San Antonio. Most of the time, he spoke to audiences numbering in the hundreds...
...Panama, well-intentioned Presidents seem always destined either for assassination, like General José Antonio Remón (1952-55) or simply to be broken, like Chiari. Robles' ambitious ideas are bound to annoy the country's far right, and his evident desire to get along with the U.S. is sure to enrage the ultranationalists and far leftists who still talk revolution. "I give us 18 months to get things rolling," says a Robles Cabinet minister. "If we have not car ried out our pledges by that time, the government will fall...
Intended by Italy's constitution makers to be a merely ceremonial office, the presidency of Italy has actually turned out to be an important steady ing influence during times of confusion in Italian politics. Hence, when President Antonio Segni was felled by a cerebral stroke last August, Italians were concerned not only for the frail, oft-ailing Segni, whom they had long affectionately called malato di ferro -"the iron invalid" - but for their nation as well...
...until he reached San Antonio did Humphrey begin to warm up. There he attracted 5,000 people, including many Mexican-Americans, to the Alamo, led them through his now familiar litany. "Most Americans," he said, "thought we should pass a civil rights bill. Most Americans, most Senators, most Congressmen thought that all citizenship should be first-class citizenship. But . . ." The crowd quickly responded ". . . not Senator Goldwater...
...Antonio, where the liberals are stronger than any place else in Texas, Connally's supporters were greatly out-numbered at the county convention and so they walked out, held a rump convenion, and named their own delegates to the state convention. The Connally-dominated credentials committee at the State Convention seated the illegitimate delegation and Connally's control was complete. At county conventions where liberals prevailed, resolutions had been passed endorsing President Johnson and his program; where Connally prevailed, the President was endorsed but never his program...